President Trump on Thursday abruptly denied military aircraft to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for a foreign trip just minutes before the congressional delegation was set to depart, in a stunning decision that followed her call to delay the State of the Union address amid the government shutdown.


In a curt letter, Trump said her trip has been “postponed.”


“Due to the Shutdown, I am sorry to inform you that your trip to Brussels, Egypt, and Afghanistan has been postponed. We will reschedule this seven-day excursion when the Shutdown is over. In light of the 800,000 great American workers not receiving pay, I am sure you would agree that postponing this public relations event is totally appropriate,” Trump wrote.

“I also feel that, during this period, it would be better if you were in Washington negotiating with me and joining the Strong Border Security movement to end the Shutdown. Obviously, if you would like to make your journey by flying commercial, that would certainly be your prerogative.”



According to sources, the president pulled the plug on her aircraft as she was about to leave for her overseas trip. Her congressional delegation's military aircraft was slated to leave at 3 p.m. ET.

A senior White House official also told Fox News that all congressional delegation travel by military aircraft is now postponed.

An official said that “as soon as the president found out about the trip today, he took immediate action.” A source told Fox News that when moving to cancel Thursday's flight, the White House reasoned that the trip would keep Pelosi out of the country beyond next Tuesday night—when the next government pay period would occur.

"If she had gone on this trip she would have guaranteed that 800,000 federal workers would not receive their second paycheck because she would not have been here to negotiate any kind of deal," a senior White House official said Thursday.

Film at 11.... 🤣



This prolly won't help things much but ya gotta love it... 🤣

She got to Hawaii ok.

That's pretty darn funny, and well deserved.

Gotta remind her who's da boss every now and then... 😟

So much for Pelpsi empathy.

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B*tch should have cancelled the trip herself out of respect for the American workers not getting paid instead of worrying about the SOTU speech. It would only have been better if Trump would have waited until she boarded the plan before pulling the plug!

It shows she has no interest at all in making a deal.. she wants the shutdown to continue... 😟

Not one of them should be doing anything until they get a deal done.

Why?
There's no reason for them to stop doing anything.

No deal will be made between them, they both may as well carry on.

She's scared to death of Trump making the SOTU without her getting equal air time.. that last speech was ridiculous.. she had no business on the air after he spoke.. 🤐

President Trump did not ground the old wind bag, he simply changed her transportation options.


=d>

And burned her to ensure any travel became a security risk.
If Obama had done that to McConnell you would have had a conniption.

Sounds like she booked commercial flights over an unsecured phone line then blamed Trump for leaking her plans... She must really hate Trump... 😟

Pelosi has alzheimers. And she was stupid before that.

Drafter what the fk nonsense are you spouting?

Well, she does... It's pretty obvious... 😟

What's your nonsense about commercial flight? She had a military flight that was cancelled. In a very public letter.

I haven't heard of her trying to schedule a commercial flight after that,and it wouldn't be wise to... Since it was publicly announced by the trump administration that she was looking to travel to the middle East.

Who made the letter public? 😕

Actually your dementia is clouding you perception. Trump showed his pettiness. Trump traveled to the middle east during the shut down. So he is lying like usual.

Trumps press secretary tweeted the damn letter drafter.